Fountain-pen



INVENTORS (No Model.)

E. G.`PECK 8v F. OMEARA.

FOUNTAIN PEN.

No. 528,234. Patented July 1'7, 1894.

STATES PATENT CFFICE.

EDWARD G. PECK AND FREDERICK OMEARA, OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT-FOUNTAIN-PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,234, dated July 17,1894.

Application led April 6, 1894- Serial No. 506,601. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, EDWARD G. PECK and FREDERICK OMEARA, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Seymour, in the county of New Haven andState of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Fountain-Pens; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention has for its object to provide a simple, durable andinexpensive propelling device for fountainepens, the requirements beingthat the mechanism be durable and always ready to Work, that it move thepen in or out quickly and without rotating the pen and that the parts beso constructed that there be no leakage at the base of the reservoir.

With` these ends in view we have devised the novel construction which Wewill now describe referring by numbers to the accompanying drawingsforming part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a longitudinalsection on an en- I arged scale, the pen holder and barrel being 1nelevation and the parts in the closed position; Fig. 2 a similar viewthe pen holder and pen being in position for use; Fig. 3 a section onthe line x in Fig. 2 looking toward the left, and Fig. 4 is alongitudinal section of the barrel.

1 denotes the reservoir the base of which is closed by a threaded plug 2having a central opening 3 through it. At the other end of the reservoiris a nozzle 4 which is like- Wise threaded to engage the reservoir.

5 denotes the pen, 6 a holder therefor and 7 'a rod formed integral withthe pen holder.

8 denotes a barrel within the reservoir which is provided with spiralslots 9 and with a rod 10 which passes through opening 3 in the plug.The outer end of the plug consists of a hub 12, itself preferablyprovided with a socket to receive a packing 11 which may be a cork orany suitable material. The

function of this packing is simply to prevent leakage at the base.

13 denotes a hand piece which is provided with a socket 14 to receivehub 12 and with a central opening 15 to receive rod 10. The hand pieceturns freely on the hub and is rigidly xed to rod 10 in any suitablemanner as by a pin 16 which passes through the hand piece and rod, seeFig. 1, so that rotation of the hand piece Will rotate rod 10 and thebarrel. At the inner end of rod 7, which is formed integral with the penholder, is a pin 17 which passes through the spiral slots in the barreland the ends of which engage longitudinal grooves 18 in the inner sideof the barrel so that rod 7, the pen holder and pen are held againstrotation but when the hand piece and barrel are rotated pin 17 is causedthrough its engagementfwith the spiral slots to travel longitudinally ingrooves 18 thereby moving the pen into operative position or retractingit depending upon which way the hand piece is turned.

19 denotes the usual cap which is preferU ably threaded to engage thethreaded outer end of the nozzle to cover the pen when not in use andwhich may be slipped over the base of the hand piece which is reducedfor that purpose when the pen is in use, Fig. l showing the cap inengagement with the nozzle and Fig. 2 showing it as slipped over thebase of the hand piece.

Having thus described our invention, we claim-f- The combination with aholder for a pen, having a rod 7 with a pin 17, areservoir having slotsengaged by said pin, and a plug at its base, of a barrel Within thereservoir having spiral slots through which pin 17 passes, a rod 10which passes through the plug and a hand piece fixed to rod 10 so thatrotation of the hand piece rod 10 and the barrel will move the penholder and pen longitudinally without rotation.

In testimony whereof we aix our signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD G. IPECK. FREDERICK OMEARA.

Witnesses: I f

CHARLEs P. CARRINGTON, MAMIE CARMAN.

